Well finally finished the plane, albeit certainly not all of the games, oddly enough I did better at the dice sliding game than the magic flowers one lol, though still no chance with the Rainbow tower.
Some very interesting games in there, albeit some tough ones, and some that probably could do with a bit more by way of instructions, I lost twice at the dice game before I realised what was going on.
To answer a few points I've seen, with many side scrolling games like boreal forest remember that whilst your on a ladder enemies can't get you, you don't have to climb, just as long as you've pressed up arrow once on a ladder anything will just zoom straight past.
So, all you need to do with the elk is just wait until they're going right, run right until you reach a ladder, climb it a rung, wait until they run left past you, then run right until you get to the next ladder, rinse and repeat. This works for quite a few games, albeit others like the flying boat are still difficult, and don't get me started on that bouncy penguins minigame in the ice, God I've died to that one so many times its not funny.
With the lava bridges in the volcano, and indeed with dragon scale hunting and several other games with lava, one important thing to remember, is that before you hit lava, you'll hear a stepping on mud sound, so when you hear that you'll know your next step will drop you in the drink.
For the game where your crossing on the small islands, each island is square and linked by at least two metal bridges. So, to begin I go north until I hit the mud sound, then track east or west until I hear myself stepping on the first northward bridge.
Once I'm on the first island, I take one step forward onto the stone, then go north until I hear the mud sound again. I then alternate taking one step east or west, then one step back onto the stone center of the island. If I'm lucky I find another metal bridge on the north side, if I'm not lucky, when I take a step back I hear another mud sound meaning I'm at the top corner of the island.
In this case, I repeat the process for the east or west side, one step south, then one step back east or west onto the stone until I find the bridge which I can cross to the next island, then I go to the north side and repeat the process.
This isn't as long winded as it sounds and I can usually get 20 points, unless the random generator is against me.
Generally speaking the random generation usually goes bridge north, then bridge east or west, then bridge north, though not always.
The lava mud sound is also useful in the dragon scales game, though with that one its harder since you need to stop instantly when you hear the mud. Usually I try to make dashes north to a scale if I can, and try not to take too many risks, but I'll agree that one is tough.
With the mosquitoes, the best tactic I've found is to run around the outside corridor using diagonal runs left or right to grab mosquitoes as I pass, and making sure not to miss one. Usually running around the outside saves time getting lost and most mosquitoes movements take them to the outside more often. I can usually guarantee to get 17 or so doing this, though to get all twenty still takes a wee bit of luck.
Lastly with the sticks game, basically the rule to remember is simply to make sure your opponent always has a multiple of four sticks plus one and you'll win, so aim to always give your opponent 21, 17, 13 9 or 5 sticks.
hth.
I'm now up to 169 minigames and 14 worlds, though there are still plenty I haven't done and some like cursed field which I still have no idea about (I gather that one is echo location, but it seems pretty damn random and usually I can only do it by trial and error).
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)